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Tables of Contents for Globalizing Capital
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
vii
Introduction
3
4
The Gold Standard
7
38
Prehistory
8
1
The Dilemmas of Bimetallism
9
4
The Lure of Bimetallism
13
2
The Advent of the Gold Standard
15
5
Shades of Gold
20
5
How the Gold Standard Worked
25
5
The Gold Standard as a Historically Specific Institution
30
2
International Solidarity
32
3
The Gold Standard and the Lender of Last Resort
35
3
Instability at the Periphery
38
4
The Stability of the System
42
3
Interwar Instability
45
48
Chronology
46
5
Experience with Floating: The Controversial Case of the Franc
51
6
Reconstructing the Gold Standard
57
4
The New Gold Standard
61
2
Problems of the New Gold Standard
63
5
The Pattern of International Payments
68
4
Responses to the Great Depression
72
3
Banking Crises and Their Management
75
2
Disintegration of the Gold Standard
77
3
Sterling's Crisis
80
5
The Dollar Follows
85
3
Managed Floating
88
3
Conclusions
91
2
The Bretton Woods System
93
43
Wartime Planning and Its Consequences
96
6
The Sterling Crisis and the Realignment of European Currencies
102
4
The European Payments Union
106
3
Payments Problems and Selective Controls
109
4
Convertibility: Problems and Progress
113
4
Special Drawing Rights
117
3
Declining Controls and Rising Rigidity
120
5
The Battle for Sterling
125
3
The Crisis of the Dollar
128
8
From Floating to Monetary Unification
136
56
Floating Exchange Rates in the 1970s
139
6
Floating Exchange Rates in the 1980s
145
7
The Snake
152
8
The European Monetary System
160
7
Renewed Impetus for Integration
167
4
The EMS Crisis
171
4
Understanding the Crisis
175
6
The Experience of Developing Countries
181
5
The Asian Crisis
186
5
Conclusions
191
1
Conclusion
192
5
Glossary
197
8
References
205
16
Index
221